Put the numbers 1 through 9 into the hexagonal cells so that every line (of any length) contains every digit not more than once. The lines must contain consecutive numbers, i. e., if a line has five cells there can be 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 3, 5, 4, 2, 6 but not 3, 4, 1, 9, 8 in the cells.

The clues along the edges tell you how many skyscrapers you can see from that vantage point in the given direction.

Today's picture shows a pyramid with a manger scene. Joseph has a Christmas Matins lantern in his hands. Lanterns of this type are used in the Erzgebirge on the way to Christma Matins on the morning of the 25th December.

The Erzgebirgian people celebrate Christmas Eve with a feast, the Neinerlaa (literally: nine different things). There are many rules surrounding the Neinerlaa. It would take too long to mention them all here. But the nine ingredients that gave the Neinerlaa the name have special meanings. The Griene Kließ (raw potato dumplings) will bring money, the lentils or the millet little money, the beetroot red cheeks (i.e. health), the root celery fertility, bread roll milk white clothes (i.e. order in the house). Also important, there must be animals on earth (sausage from the pig), in the air (goose) and in the water (now herring, formerly also carp).

When I decided to make a Neinerlaa puzzle, it quickly became clear there should be a sudoku, because there are nine rows, nine columns, nine boxes and nine numbers. The pioneering role of the components are symbolized in our puzzle by nine kinds of arrows. And to top this, there is sometimes a purple cell border if the sum of the neighboring cells is 9.

Fill the grid with the digits 1 to 9. The digits represent the height of the skyscraper in each cell. Each row, column and 3x3-box has exactly one of each digit. The clues along the edges tell you how many skyscrapers you can see from that vantage point. The sum of two cells with a bold line between them is always the same, the so called magic number.

Fill the grid with the digits 1 to 9. The digits represent the height of the skyscraper in each cell. Each row, column and 3x3-box has exactly one of each digit. The same digits can not touch each other diagonally. The clues along the edges tell you how many skyscrapers you can see from that vantage point.

Fill the grid with the digits 1 to 9. The digits represent the height of the skyscraper in each cell. Each row, column and 3x3-box has exactly one of each digit. The clues along the edges tell you how many skyscrapers you can see from that vantage point. In the blue areas there must always be the same set of digits (possibly in different orders).

Fill the grid with the digits 1 to 9. The digits represent the height of the skyscraper in each cell. Each row, column and 3x3-box has exactly one of each digit. The clues along the edges tell you how many skyscrapers you can see from that vantage point. If a clue is cancelled with a red cross then you can't see this number of skyscrapers.

Fill the grid with the digits 1 to 9. The digits represent the height of the skyscraper in each cell. Each row, column and cells of the same color has exactly one of each digit. The clues along the edges tell you how many skyscrapers you can see from that vantage point.

Fill the grid with the digits 1 to 9. The digits represent the height of the Skyscraper in each cell. Each row, column and 3x3-box will have exactly one of each digit. The green and yellow cells around the grid tell you whether the number of skyscrapers you can see from that vantage point is even or odd. Yellow cells mean that you can see an odd number, green cells mean that you can see an even number.

Fill the grid with the digits 1 to 9. The digits represent the height of the skyscraper in each cell. Each row, column and 3x3-box has exactly one of each digit. Yellow cells must contain odd digits, green cells must contain even digits. The green and yellow cells around the 9x9 grid tell you whether the number of skyscrapers you can see from that vantage point is even or odd. The clues in these cells tell you how many skyscrapers you can see from that vantage point.

Fill the grid with the digits 1 to 9. The digits represent the height of the skyscraper in each cell. Each row, column and 3x3-box has exactly one of each digit. The clues along the edges tell you how many skyscrapers you can see from that vantage point. Yellow cells must contain odd digits, green cells must contain even digits.